NIIT announced launch of its GNIIT programme for engineering students on Wednesday. The firm hopes to expedite the growth in its individual learning business segment through such programmes and collaborations with engineering colleges in the coming year.

“The revenue growth in the last six quarters has been challenging. But growth rat­es have been slowly coming back. We hope to grow the individual learning solutions business between 10 per cent and 12 per cent this year,” said G Raghavan, president — global individual learning solutions, NIIT.

“We will maintain an EBITDA (earning before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) improvement between 100 and 150 basis points. We have been maintaining this over the last few quarters,” Raghavan said. The GNIIT programme and short-term diploma programmes will help improve growth, he added.

The former is a three-year course meant for BE and BTech students to be pursued with engineering. The diploma course helps graduates to brush up their software skills. This helped fresh graduates during the slowdown when firms were not recruiting, he said.